
Senior Cost Controller- Transport & Utilities
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control team or independently with reach back support to experienced cost professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Tailoring Cost Control approaches to meet the client's needs and aligning with best practice.
- Promoting the benefits and requirements of Cost Control within the project and programme team.
- Implementing, administering, and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
- Development of project Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), align the time phasing of budgets against the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), to accurately track and control actual costs.
- Map and integrate cost estimates to the Work Breakdown Structure, in order to set the project budget against the correct Work Packages, Planning Packages and Control Accounts.
- Develop and maintain relationships with interfacing disciplines including, but not limited to, Finance, Commercial and Project Managers to ensure alignment of project information.
- Lead the production of accruals to ensure that the Actual Cost of Work Performed is accurately reflected in a timely manner in the cost data.
- Provide advice and assist the development of reporting tracking tools, where required, and generate Cost reports on a regular basis, including analysis of earned value management information.
- Providing Cost information and advice, where required, to the project team to develop status reports, keep management informed on project progress, and to support performance management decision making.
- Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on cost control processes and practices.
- Demonstrable Experience in Cost Control is essential.
- Familiarity of different cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques
- Experience leading Cost Control Assurance activities as part of project performance cadence
- A detailed understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is
- Practical experience of using MS Excel and other MS applications
- Familiarity with at least one Cost Control tool is desirable.
- An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Risk Management, Reporting, Change Control) interact with Cost Control is desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.
- The ability to travel to client sites across the region as required